Behavioral Insights Podcast

In this episode, I talk about Authoritan Ethics and humanistic Ethics based on Fromm's work. I spend more time on the former. It's to help you understand our current environment with some perspectives you might find helpful or maybe threatening.

After returning after some much needed time off, I share my thoughts on the current state of affairs and how it relates to conceptual thinking. Conceptual thinking is our personal belief system created in our minds and how we use it to approach people, things, and systems in the world.

In this episode, I discuss some thoughts on COVID19. What is happening to our country and why you should be concerned.

In this episode, I talk about the power of the story. We are all living a story. Is your story worth reading? What makes a good story?

In this episode, I discuss the 3 ways in which we communicate. Attitude, Gestures, and Words.

In this episode, you'll experience a debriefing I recently did with a future thinker. Listen in as I explain this brain to the brain it belongs to. The client's voice has been disguised and it has been edited down from 90 minutes to about 20.

In this episode, I open with a little 2020 surprise and then discuss the reliability of assessing and how it relates to predicting "personal performance" in the workplace or in a relationship.

In this episode, I talk about opposites and attraction, value similarities, positive and negative sentiment override, and why some marriages are more successful than others.

In this episode, I share the 9 human responsibilities that can help ensure healthy outcomes for those under your care or tutelage. Whether you're a parent or a manager or leader, these will help you be it better.

In this episode, I discuss how regulated, religious, traditional, and systemic thinking patterns work and how we view the world depending on where we are within this framework.

In this short episode, I discuss emotional compatibility. In other words, what adjustments might we need to make in order to ensure better emotional compatibility so that we can experience better outcomes?

In this episode, I interview American Artist, John Bukaty. John is a hypersonic, unconventional stage-painting artist. He never quits, displays excruciating vulnerability, and is as honest as they come. This is John's secret sauce.

This is a short and sweet employee onboarding call. When a client is on retainer we onboard their employees with a simple analysis and a phone debrief so they can become familiar with me. This call's pretty funny because I'm trying to fit lunch in during calls and you can tell that I'm sneak-eating. Lol.

In this episode, I allow the listener to listen in on a training session with a Junior Analyst. The trainee is going through a recent profile they will soon debrief. I point out what "isn't obvious" in this profile to show the trainee how to separate himself from other analysts in the world.

Behavior and emotions are the same for all people. Mad, glad, sad, and scared look the same for people from all walks of life and intelligence levels. Unintelligent people can get mad just like intelligent people do, but people with lower emotional intelligence (maturity) may get mad at the wrong time and say the wrong thing to the wrong person. Knowing what to say and when to say it is an intelligence issue, not a behavioral one.

Most people don't believe they measure up, so they measure down. Are you one of them? You don't have to be. Advice on measuring yourself the right way in a world going wrong.

Part 2: The need to be ourselves. In this episode, I delve into the self-affirmation-system, achieving, vulnerability, and truths about the Velveteen rabbit.

This episode is about the need to be ourselves. I go deep into the death that counts, performance living, and why we need to accept ourselves "as is." This doesn't mean avoiding responsibility, but rather not being controlled by what other people think.

Are you willing to fail? You may as well be because you're going to fail at something if you haven't already.

In this episode, I discuss the story of David and Goliath. I discuss functional authority versus title authority and several other ideas such as decisiveness.

This is my interview with unconventional serial entrepreneur, Ameer Rosic. Ameer's behavioral type reflects about 3-4 percent of the population. There's some strong language in this one. I think you'll really enjoy Ameer's amazing success journey, his extreme no-nonsense approach, and our candid conversation. This is a glimpse into a truly fantastic yet complex and interesting mind.

In Part 2 of the Waking Up series, I discuss a few key principles in the life of Moses that we can learn from. I hope you enjoy some of the behavioral nuggets I've chosen out of this ancient Hebrew tale, but more importantly, you apply them in your own life.

In this "Waking Up" series, I introduce some simple yet profound patterns and principles for attaining your best place in the world. This is the first of possibly six or so episodes containing simple "stories" from the Tanakh, the Torah, and the Gospels that hold some elementary yet profound principles for finding your sweet spot.

We all compensate for our negative attention by over-focusing or over-valuing certain dimensions within our world and self-views. If I lack attention to details I may over-focus on results to compensate for it.

Do you have a balanced or distorted worldview? How clearly can you see (perceive) the people, things, and ideas about how things ought to be around you? What do you over-value in the world? What are you undervaluing?

How much of our personal sacrificing is a true sacrificial act? Most people's sense of sacrifice is distorted. In this episode, I talk about psychological egoism and altruism and how they really work.

There are 3 types of control. You are either in control, out of control, or under control. Too much of anything is a problem and a challenge.

What is your concept of self? Did you come up with it or did someone else? And if someone else came up with it, where's yours?

What do you feel when you hear that someone is controlling? This may be an indication as to where you are personally on the Power Value scale. Control is about positing our own value system on another either as a permanent or transitory motive. Power and control lacks all service and sacrificial motive. 

Are you committed to your organization? Are you committed to the people in it? Really? Are you sure? Are you sure you don't have a secret competing commitment to your own fears? Find out here.

Roughly 75% of the population has a passive brain. These folks need an "inciting incident" to move them forward (as a character) in their story. They need to be given directions they don't direct themselves. In this episode I talk about this.

Can we do whatever we want? If I want to make behavioral change, can I just "do it?" How easy is it to change the way we are? On this episode I talk about free will and the complexity involved with behavioral change.

This episode covers human valuation. Every day we make value judgments about what is good and what is bad. Each person, thing, and idea's goodness or badness is based on our concept of good. depending on our clarity (perception) and bias (attention), we will make good or bad decisions.

Every human being has earning potential but not everyone reaches their potential. Here I outline a few tips and stories to get you into a position where you can receive your destiny when it shows up.

How connected are you to those who work for you or depend on you? Human connection is the most important element when working, influencing, and gaining support from others. Let's talk about it for a few minutes.

Many of you are aware of the Old Testament statement, "That which I had feared the most has come upon me." This episode is dedicated to why our brains are bent on fulfilling our cherished beliefs about people, things, and ideas about people and things.

Human-Directedness allows our selves to move forward and accomplish things in the world. But where do our directives come from? Join Steve as he explains the process of human direction and how we depend on others or ourselves for moving in the earth.

Steve talks about team dynamics and human behavior. Most teams are not working. Although companies set aside millions per year in the US to devote to team building, team trips, and team goal setting, odds are good it's not helping. 

Unconventional Entrepreneur Tucker Max joins Steven Sisler in this episode. Steve revisits Tucker's behavioral profile from 2014 and compares it to his current profile. Join Steve and Tucker as they navigate Tucker's behavior, emotions, motivation, and unconventional axiology scores. 

What system do you live by? The deserve system or the desire system? If you live by the deserve system you might be experiencing some difficulty.

In this episode Steve addresses conflict avoidance. Why and what to do if you're tired of it.

Some people start but never finish. Some people finish projects before starting new one's. Why is this? Well, I'll tell you.

This episode covers the rebel spirit and how some gypsy-spirited people types view the world.

Why do we believe unbelievable things? Is it part of our genetic inheritance?

16 percent of the population is unconventional. Unconventional styles can engender whimsical, spontaneous, and/or revolutionary approaches to accomplishing tasks that others may see as genius, unrealistic, out-of-the-box or provocative.

Exaggerated empathy and low self-worth or intrinsic value. Human values doesn't scale.